Rivlin ♥ McCain?

I know, I know, my ongoing beef with Alice Rivlin is starting to get as long in the tooth as the now-settled one between Nas and Jay-Z, but I just realized that I forget to mention her quote in that awful and error-plauged article on the budget in last Saturday's WaPo:

"I suspect that McCain will be more constrained and will have a veto power over the Democratic Congress," said Alice M. Rivlin, who served as the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, as well as one of Clinton's budget directors. "If it's Obama, the Democratic Congress is going to be pushing for spending and it's awfully hard to rein in your own folks. No Democrat is going to want to go to war with Congress."

The Brookings-Urban Tax Policy Center estimates that the McCain tax proposal would increase the national debt by a trillion more dollars over the next 10 years than Obama's plan. Some constraint.